# Is my new Acer netbook broke?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 7, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-new-acer-netbook-broke/559770 "2010-11-07T05:15:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-new-acer-netbook-broke/559770/21 "2010-12-12T12:43:40Z")

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I have the one - the touchpad is fairly poor. If you’re not used to touchpads in general I could see it being a struggle. Having the buttons at the side, rather than underneath, makes things more difficult - and it does manifest some odd pointing behaviour.

That being said - you get used to its design and I use it with no real problems. There is one persistent issue of a swirl shape appearing now and again as a pointer - I think it may have something to do with a mousewheel function, and I’ve not worked out how to sort it out.

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